How Did Capitalism Contribute To Capitalism

Wealth is one of the contributors to capitalism, but the pure accumulation of wealth is not what is defined to be capitalism. Capitalism, for the purposes of this essay, will be defined to be the relentless pursuit of not just wealth, but profit. One of the significant implications of capitalism is the exploitation of laborers, which contributes to the creation of different types of classes, including the proletariat.
Before the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in England, there was a feudal system with lords who owned land and had serfs working the land. The initial sources of wealth and power were measured by the number of subjects one had. However, as the price of wool increased, there was a transformation in the purpose of the land. The land was now used for sheep herding instead of agricultural farming, which meant that there was a significantly lower amount of labor needed, which in turn meant that the peasants were usurped from the land and were now forced to become wage-laborers. This created a class of industrial proletariat who have been fully separated from the means of production and were forced to rely on the owners of the means of production to sustain themselves.
People no longer work to enrich themselves, but work to benefit the capitalists. It was important to keep the proletariat poor with low wages as to leave them no other options but to stay as wage-laborers and social dependence of the workers on the capitalist led to labor becoming a form of capital which resulted in the deviation from a feudal society to a capitalistic